New York News

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New York News
Genre Drama
Created by Michelle Ashford
Starring
ComposerShari Johanson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (5 unaired)
Production
Executive producers
  • Michelle Ashford
  • Ian Sander
ProducerNan Bernstein Freed
Running time60 minutes (with commercials)
Production companies
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseSeptember 28 (1995-09-28) 
November 30, 1995 (1995-11-30)

New York News is an American newspaper drama television series created by Michelle Ashford, which was broadcast in the United States by CBS from September 28 to November 30, 1995 as part of its 1995 fall lineup.

Contents

Cast

Premise

New York News is the story of the fictional New York Reporter, a struggling tabloid in the US's largest, most competitive newspaper market, New York City. Major characters included Jack Reilly (Gregory Harrison), an old-style newspaperman (so old-style that he actually went sneaking around in a trench coat); Angela Villanova (Melina Kanakaredes), a young writer who seemingly alternated between admiring Reilly and being in love with him; Nan Chase (Madeline Kahn), a gossip columnist somewhat in the vein of Rona Barrett; and Tony Amato (Anthony DeSando), the paper's leading sports columnist.

Supervising all of these talented, high-strung people was Editor-in-Chief Louise Felcott (Mary Tyler Moore), the "Dragon", who kept the pressure up on these employees and others, including their immediate boss, Managing Editor Mitch Cotter (Joe Morton). The paper's budget cutting and the related attempt of ownership to sell it took their toll on Cotter, who suffered a minor heart attack in the early episodes.

Moore was reportedly very unhappy with how her character was written, as a tough, unsympathetic, and unglamourous woman who peered out at her subordinates through thick "Coke-bottle" glasses. She was reputedly in negotiations to get out of her contract to do the program when this was made unnecessary by CBS's cancellation of it due to low Nielsen ratings two months after its premiere.

Episode list

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Pilot"Unknown Michelle Ashford September 28, 1995 (1995-09-28)
2"Fun City"John David ColesMichelle AshfordOctober 5, 1995 (1995-10-05)
3"Thin Line"UnknownBarbara HallOctober 8, 1995 (1995-10-08)
4"Broadway Joe"UnknownEric Overmyer & Michelle AshfordOctober 12, 1995 (1995-10-12)
5"Goodbye Gator"UnknownVelma Black & Barbara HallOctober 19, 1995 (1995-10-19)
6"A Question of Truth"UnknownGeorgia JeffriesNovember 2, 1995 (1995-11-02)
7"Welcome Back Cotter"UnknownStory by: Wayne Grigsby & Barbara Samuels
Teleplay by: Jack Orman
November 9, 1995 (1995-11-09)
8"You Thought the Pope Was Something"UnknownMichelle AshfordNovember 30, 1995 (1995-11-30)
9"Cost of Living"TBDBarbara HallUNAIRED
10"Yankee Glory"TBDJack OrmanUNAIRED
11"Past Imperfect"TBDGeoffrey Thomas GeorgeUNAIRED
12"Forgotten"TBDJuan Carlos CotoUNAIRED
13"The Using Game"TBDMike McAlaryUNAIRED

Nielsen ratings

EpisodeOriginal air dateRating/Share [1] Million viewers [2] Rank [3]
1September 28, 19957.1/119.970
2October 5, 19956.1/98.665
3October 8, 19956.8/119.156
4October 12, 19956.0/98.273
5October 19, 19956.5/108.869
6November 2, 19956.8/109.176
7November 9, 19955.5/97.586
8November 30, 19955.9/97.888

References

  1. "Weekly Nielsen Ratings: 1995-96 TV Season". Ratings Ryan.
  2. "Weekly Nielsen Ratings: 1995-96 TV Season". Ratings Ryan.
  3. "Weekly Nielsen Ratings: 1995-96 TV Season". Ratings Ryan.